Federal Register Summary for week of 25 February

Agriculture

National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: 2011 Notice of Call for Nominations.

SUMMARY: The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council,
(NUCFAC) will be filling five positions that have expired at the end of
December 2010. Interested applicants may download a copy of the
application and position descriptions from the U.S. Forest Service's
Urban and Community Forestry Web site: http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/.

DATES: Nomination(s) must be "received'' (not postmarked) by March 29,
2011.

Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD)
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through
Friday.

Environmental Protection Agency

Improving EPA Regulations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Request for comment; notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: On January 18, 2011, President Obama issued Executive Order
13563, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,'' and called on
all Federal agencies to conduct a "retrospective analysis of rules
that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively
burdensome and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in
accordance with what has been learned.'' EPA seeks public input on the
design of a plan to use for periodic retrospective review of its
regulations.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 20, 2011. A public
meeting will be held on March 14, 2011 in Arlington, VA.

Hand Delivery: Improving Regulations Docket, EPA/DC, EPA
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. Such
deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.

Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-2011-
0154, -0155, -0156, -0157, -0158, -0159, -0160, -0161, -0162, -0163, -
0164, -0165, -0166, -0167, -0168. EPA's policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public docket without change and may
be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit
information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through
http://www.regulations.gov. The http://www.regulations.gov website is
an "anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through http://www.regulations.gov your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses. For additional instructions on submitting
comments, go to Section II of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.

Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Improving
Regulations Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the
telephone number for the Improving Regulations Docket is (202) 566-
1752.

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2009

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of document availability and request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and
Sinks: 1990-2009 is available for public review. Annual U.S. emissions
for the period of time from 1990 through 2009 are summarized and
presented by source category and sector. The inventory contains
estimates of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFC),
perfluorocarbons (PFC), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)
emissions. The inventory also includes estimates of carbon fluxes in
U.S. agricultural and forest lands. The technical approach used in this
report to estimate emissions and sinks for greenhouse gases is
consistent with the methodologies recommended by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and reported in a format consistent
with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
reporting guidelines. The Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
and Sinks: 1990-2009 is the latest in a series of annual U.S.
submissions to the Secretariat of the UNFCCC.

DATES: To ensure your comments are considered for the final version of
the document, please submit your comments within 30 days of the
appearance of this notice. However, comments received after that date
will still be welcomed and be considered for the next edition of this
report.

Health and Human Services

Laboratory Animal Welfare: Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requests public
comments on (1) NIH's adoption of the eighth edition of the Guide for
the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Guide) as a basis for
evaluation of institutional programs receiving or proposing to receive
Public Health Service (PHS) support for activities involving animals;
and (2) if NIH decides to adopt the eighth edition of the Guide, NIH's
proposed implementation plan, which would require that institutions
complete at least one semiannual program and facility evaluation using
the eighth edition of the Guide as the basis for evaluation by March
31, 2012. NIH will consider comments on (1) the adoption of the Guide
and (2) the implementation plan.

DATES: Written comments on the adoption and implementation of the
eighth edition of the Guide must be received by NIH within 30 days of
the date of publication of this notice in order to be considered.

Interior

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, North Slope
Science Initiative, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
(FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S.
Department of the Interior, North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI)--
Science Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) will meet as indicated below:

DATES: The meeting will be held March 28 through April 1, 2011, in
Barrow, Alaska. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on March 28, 2011, at
the Inupiat Heritage Center. On March 29 through April 1, 2011, the
meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. Public comment will be received between
3 and 4 p.m. on Monday, March 28 2011.

Reducing Regulatory Burden; Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior.

ACTION: Request for information.

SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior (DOI) is preparing a
preliminary plan to review its existing significant regulations in
response to the President's Executive Order 13563 on improving
regulation and regulatory review. The purpose of this regulatory review
is to help DOI manage the Nation's public lands and national treasures,
honor our tribal trust obligations, protect the environment and
endangered species, distribute and monitor water resources, and help
America become energy independent in ways that are more effective and
less burdensome. DOI is asking for ideas and information from the
public in preparing the plan and identifying opportunities to improve
any of its significant regulations by modifying, streamlining,
expanding, or repealing them.

DATES: You must submit any comments on or before March 28, 2011.

ADDRESSES: All comments must include "Comments on improving DOI's
regulations--Docket Number DOI-2011-0001''. You must submit comments by
any (but only one) of the following methods:

Transportation

Membership in the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: By Federal Register notice (See 75 FR 68023; November 4, 2010)
the National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) invited interested persons to apply to fill two vacant positions
on the National Parks Overflights Advisory Group (NPOAG) Aviation
Rulemaking Committee (ARC). These notices invited interested persons to
apply to fill two vacancies representing environmental concerns due to
the incumbent member's completion of their three-year term appointments
on May 30, 2011. This notice informs the public of the persons selected
to fill the vacancies on the NPOAG ARC.